Make the most of the time you get
On this, the quiet side of tomorrow
For you do not know what lies ahead
Tomorrow may bring joy or sorrow
On this, the quiet side of tomorrow
Everything is reassuringly familiar
Tomorrow may bring joy or sorrow
But now is not the time for fear
Everything is reassuringly familiar
This is the beauty of today
But now is not the time for fear
Don’t fritter the day away
This is the beauty of today
For you do not know what lies ahead
Don’t fritter the day away
Make the most of the time you get
*Here I've attempted a pantoum, a type of poem with a verse form consisting of three or more stanzas. It has a set pattern within the poem of repetitive lines.
The pattern in each stanza is where the second and fourth line of each verse is repeated as the first and third of the next. The pattern changes though for the last stanza to the first and third line are the second and fourth of the stanza above (penultimate). The last line is a repeat of the first starting line of the poem and the third line of the first is the second of the last.
© 2013 Uma Venkatraman ~ All Rights Reserved
© 2013 Uma Venkatraman ~ All Rights Reserved
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